Inheriting

After our presentation on Look Back in Anger, I started to reflect in the fact of anger in young people, and how in this context it was inherited. They were not angry at something that had happened to them, but they were angry because of things that had happened to their parents. They were angry because they grew up with angry parents. Then we have the example of Jimmy, who was also angry because people, young people, did anything to change their situation, it was frustration felt while seeing that people did not care.

We compared this feeling with our generation in our country, how we are angry, bothered by what happened to generations before us, fighting in a way to find answers, to understand what was to be there at that time, bothered maybe because we cannot relate to what happened to our parents.

That is the feeling I can see the author of Maus is expressing. The effort of Art Spiegelman to show, and understand his father, to recreate what his parents went through. I read in an interview how Spiegelman explain the difficulty of transmitting memories, memories that weren't even his. What better than to explaining them with pictures?

Spiegelman´s effort to "tell a story worth telling at a time when this story wasn't well told", when the tails did not reflect reality, people did not understand and people did not care.It  changed the way of storytelling, making graphic novels more deep, more meaningful. All because of the need for understanding.

We live in a more graphic generation, we need  advertising to show us what the product does, not to tell us. An image says more than thousand words! And Spiegelman sends us a touching message that we could not have get by reading a history book,we needed to see it.

Are there any different ways we as "youngrys" try to better understand what had happened in the past?
Can we have the certainty that what we believe as truth, is indeed?
Which medium would you choose to tell your story?